March 2010
66 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Broken Bells (12)
Hard Mix (5)
Sparklehorse (2)
Four Tet (2)
Slum Village (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The uncanny thing about today’s real-time media world is that it embraces...”
– Andrew Keen
Dodd Banking Bill's Threat to Innovators - What I...
I wrote the following note to Senator Schumer and Congresswoman Maloney this morning. Feel free to copy and paste and send to your Congressfolk:
Congresswoman Maloney,
New York City is having a moment of amazing entrepreneurial creativity. This creativity is centered in high growth, low initial cost startups. I myself have started 3 companies and while they’ve not succeeded at a level that...
Sen Dodd's bill vs startups →
I was running around yesterday bouncing from meeting to meeting but I did see this tweet by Josh Kopelman.
I hit “favorite” on Tweetie which is my way of bookmarking the tweet to read later.
So this morning I clicked through and read the entire article on the Huffington Post.
Senator…
This is important stuff to curtail. As someone who has tried a bunch of stuff with small amounts of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Bon Iver (7)
U2 (6)
Foster the People (6)
Andrew Bird (5)
Beth Orton (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The utter reclusivity of mid 20th-century celebrity has been replaced by the...”
– Andrew Keen
Loved his talk at SXSW. Really thinking through our world in the 21st century, in particular, the negative effects of the network on our lives.
“even if the AOL applicants won’t be of the same caliber. If Google is the...”
– Brutal take down of the ‘gate
This song just nails it. Enjoy.
hypem:
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“Apple has just 2.2 per cent of the world cell-phone market, but that means it...”
– Apple : The New Yorker
This is an important article. There is mounting evidence that barbell markets are the economic reality of the network economy, in the same way that bell curve markets were the economic reality of the industrial economy. To find the reason why this is, simply look to the...
Next Big Sound @ SXSW →
This is well designed, interesting and easy to use. Check it out.
bijan:
Bon Iver - Satisfied Mind
I know I’m...
“You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if...”
– Colin Powell
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
The xx (10)
Washed Out (6)
Wild Beasts (6)
Surfer Blood (5)
Air (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which...”
– David Brooks
“President Obama would replace the law’s requirement that every American child...”
– I’m Confused - Seems like trading one utopia for another
“Allocative advantage asks: are we able to match people with what makes them...”
– Umair Haque
“Unlike Twitter, which 60 percent of users abandon after signing up, Tumblr has...”
– The Curated Web | The American Prospect
Well played Tumblr.
Wickedness. Guess I’ve got to dig into...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Antonio Vivaldi (13)
Gil Scott-Heron (13)
Sounds for Life (13)
Surfer Blood (12)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman, Yo-Yo Ma, Antonio Vivaldi, Ton Koopman (9)
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Watchmsg:
I wish there was an autoreblog feature for anything jayparkinsonmd posts:
Making health simple:
Living in such a complicated world can seem so complex. But we’re creatures of habit. Ninety-three percent of our behavior is predictable.
And everyday the media reports on new research that suggests certain things are good or bad for you. It’s all quite confusing. We get so lost and so...
“Those who believe in broadcast structures recognize the efficiency of a single,...”
– Streams of Content, Limited Attention
This is an amazing article and worth a full read. However, this quote popped up because I continue to struggle with the idea that centralization is in fact more efficient than a distributed system. What’s interesting is that this efficiency wasn’t...
Building a Better Teacher →
The data is pointing towards the profound impact of great teachers. The problem is that great teachers have limited scale. Dig into this article and let me know your thoughts.
“Building things to last is a builder’s instinct. Building things for planned...”
– JP Rangaswami
This it “Too Young to Burn” from Sonny...
Tyler Fonda : Flavors.me →
Thoughts? Should this be the place I point everyone too? I like the simplicity, just not sure how I want to use it yet.
“Algebra and calculus have fundamental theorems; the Internet has a fundamental...”
– David Gelernter
“These days the same people who are buying Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” on...”
– David Brooks
collectedthinkery: Afrigadget →
I started blogging because I wanted a place where I could capture all of the things that I see that I like and trigger me to think a bit.
Its pretty humbling then when you come across blogs like afrigadget, a site with genuine purpose and meaning.
Afrigadget is a blog dedicated to…
Rob has honed into the heart of what makes blogs successful either in the micro or the macro sense....